Ahmad I

Ahmad I (1675-) was the Emperor of the Mughal Empire from summer 1703 to his death.

Biography
Ahmad I was the fourteenth son of Emperor Aurangzeb, and was born in the capital of the Mughal Empire, Akbarabad, in the Hindustan region. He was raised in a lavish palace with banquets of rice, potatoes, and chicken curry with the finest tea taken from the country. This decadence was shattered when the Maratha Confederacy and the Mughals went to war in a religious-political war that tore India apart.

Prince Ahmad succeeded his father upon his death in summer 1703 at the age of 28, and was a jug head, leaning towards republicanism in some ways and thus undermining his own power. Ahmad also believed in the centralization of industry to help the nation's finance and was a strong believer in the development of agriculture. Subsistence farming played a major role in the feeding of the Mughal population, allowing them to have over one million people in the poorest region alone.

However, the Mughal Empire was collapsing at the time of his death. All of the major Mughal armies had been destroyed before he even put on his crown, and the Marathas were expanding northwards against scarcely-protected cities; many surrendered without a fight.